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Re: Anonymous phone calls
by Richard Storey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Trei, Peter wrote: > > Bill Stewart [SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] wrote: > > >At 05:49 PM 8/2/98 -0700, scoops wrote: > >>Would some one be kind enough to suggest anonymous phone > >>call services? > >>I know about some supposedly untraceable 900# at $3.95 per > >>minute. What about an anonymous prepaid service 800# or a > >>calling card. > > >Sure - there's a much cheaper, easier approach. Go buy a > >phone card. There are some phone cards that insist on being > >recharged by credit card, but there are lots that you can > >buy at your local convenience store that don't insist on it, > >and the ones at ethnic grocery stores which let you call > >Mexico or China at moderately outrageous rates are more > >likely to be cash-only. Or you can go to your airport (if > >you're not too paranoid about Them watching you :-) and buy > >phone cards like The Official San Francisco Phone Card, in > >return for US$20 bills. > > At about the same effort, you can be even more secure. Use > cash. Change your $20 bill for a couple rolls of quarters > and walk up to any pay phone that takes coins. Put in a > quarter, and dial your number. You'll hear something like > 'Please insert $3.50 for the first three minutes.' Shove in > the coins, and talk. Works fine for long distance as well as > local calls. Much cheaper than the 900#. > > If you use a calling card for more than a single call, those > calls can be linked to each other. It may also be possible > to trace where the card was sold. > > Peter Trei > ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com Also, even the private-switch operations selling cash-paid calling cards have records of the calls made on their systems, though those records might not be in a form that makes them readily linkable to the orginator of a given call--it all depends on how much it's worth to the pursuer to pursue you. Richard Storey

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Re: Question....
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---"Bernardo B. Terrado" <bbt(a)mudspring.uplb.edu.ph> wrote: > > How does a hardware encryption device work? > If the Encryption is done on a device attached to your computer instead of in software on your computer. > > Does it need human intervention to convert a plaintext to ciphertext > or do we still give the instructions? Depends on the device. But most require some effort. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, the key escrow is a hardware encryption device. > Key Escrow is an action taken by the government to collect or gain access to private keys. There was some controversy as to the clipper chip which is hardware falling prey to key escrow however. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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FOIA appeal
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday 8/5/98 1:50 PM George B. Breznay, Director Office of Hearings and Appeals Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 Dear Director Breznay: Purpose of this letter is to ask you to properly process a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal. I attach a copy of my Tuesday February 17, 1999 15:11 FOIA. letter to Elva Barfield. Albuquerque Journal w 8/5/98 reports FBI Director Again Calls for Fund-Raising Probe By Kevin Galvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The FBI director told lawmakers Tuesday an independent counsel should be named to investigate Democratic fund raising in part because President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are under scrutiny. ... June 11, 1998 I received a letter from Tomas O. Mann, Deputy Director, Office of Hearings Hearing and Appeals. Mann wrote It is unclear from your correspondence whether you are in fact appealing Ms. Barfields March 30 determination at this time. If you wish to appeal that determination, please inform this Office as soon as possible by stating your intention in writing, either by mail to George B. Breznay, Director, Office Office of Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 20585-0107, or by e-mail to George.Breznay(a)hq.doe.gov. I comply with Manns request. Since the contents of the documents sought in my FOIA may shed light on possible wrongdoing by VP Al Gore, I ask that you process this appeal within the time limits specified by law. An agency is required to make a decision on an appeal within 20 days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays). It is possible for an agency to extend the time limits by an additional 10 days. Sincerely, William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 http://www.us.net/softwar/ Tuesday February 17, 1999 15:11 e-mail and mail Ms. Elva Barfield Freedom of Information Office U. S. Department of Energy Albuquerque Operations Office/OIEA POB 5400 Albuquerque, NM 87185-5400 EBARFIELD(a)DOEAL.GOV Dear Ms. Barfield: VP Al Gore is in the crypto business. Information SuperSpyWay Al Gore Approved Encryption for China in Return for Campaign Donations by Charles R. Smith Portions of the above document posted on Internet at http://www.us.net/softwar/ and http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ states 1. Gore charged with encryption policy according to PDD-5 and PRD-27 on April 16, 1993. 2. Government officials represent themselves on Al Gore's behalf for RSA patent purchase negotiations in Feb. 1994. 3. RSA chairman Bidzos meets with Chinese officials at the same time as Ron Brown in Oct. 1995. 4. RSA Chairman Bidzos enters into merger negotiations with Security Dynamics, a company backed by Sanford Robertson, in Nov. 1995. 5. VP Gore calls Sanford Robertson from the White House for a donation in Nov. 1995. 6. Robertson delivers $100,000 donation ($80,000 soft - $20,000 directly into the Clinton/Gore campaign) in Jan. 1996. 7. RSA signs deal with China in Feb. 1996. The administration previously prosecuted similar deals but this time does nothing. 8. Justice Dept. approves RSA merger with Security Dynamics in April 1996 for $280 million dollars, netting Sanford Robertson's company a cool $2 million just to write the deal. In 1991 I was in involved with Sandia National Laboratories Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty seismic data authenticator. At that time Sandia director Tommy A Sellers had assumed responsibility for directorship from Robert Clem. Sandia supervisor Tom Wright replaced my supervisor, John Holovka, who was the supervisor for the CTBT seismic data authenticator. Wright brought in Ph.D. Steven Goldsmith to supervise me. Sellars, Wright, and Goldsmith were new to crypto-type projects. Much of this is documented at http://www.jya.com/whp021598.htm. This is evidenced by Sellar's attached SEP 24 1991 memorandum, which Goldsmith help author, addressed to Dr James J Hearn at the National Security Agency. The SEP 24 memorandum contained a number of technical errors. I corrected these errors in my attached December 20, 1991 memorandum. Department of Energy and it predecessors have a well-documented history of not requiring technical expertise for pursuit of interests. Stewart Udall, The Myths of August, writes, Any cover-up must be implemented and enforced by designated agents, and one man emerged in 1953 as the quarterback of the AEC's damage-control effort. His name was Gordon Dunning. Although the personnel charts of the 1950s list him as a low-level "rad-safe" official in the Division of Biology and Medicine, documents demonstrate that he was clothed with authority to manage and suppress information about the radiation released by the testing of nuclear weapons. ... About the time Sellers and Sandia Ombudsman gave me a directed transfer to break electronic locks for the FBI/ERF [engineering research facility], Goldsmith and Wright, certainly with the approval of Sellers, placed a contract with RSA Inc [http://www.rsa.com/] I was told. Ms Barfield, we think the American public needs to know more about RSA's work with Sandia National Laboratories. Therefore, Under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC 552, I am requesting access to: 1 ALL purchase requisitions, including any attached statement of work, issued by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, or DOE/ALOO between January 1, 1991 and February 17, 1998 to RSA Inc. 2 Copies of all invoices from RSA Inc received by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, or DOE/ALOO between January 1, 1991 and February 17, 1998 If there are any fees for searching for, or copying, the records I have requested, please inform me before you fill the request. As you know, the Act permits you to reduce or waive the fees when the release of the information is considered as "primarily benefiting the public." I believe that this requests fits that category and I therefore ask that you waive any fees. Your office agreed to waive fees before. This request is surely of "public interest." December 13, 1994 DOE/AL FOIA officer Gwen Schreiner waived fees for the reason, "We have considered your request and have determined that release of the requested records is in the public interest, that disclosure of this information is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government, that you or the organization you represent have little or no commercial interest in the material contained in the records, that you or the organization you represent have the qualifications and ability to use and disseminate the information, and that the records are not currently in the public domain. A waiver of fees is therefore granted." This waiver of fees was, undoubtedly, issued as a result of former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's Openness initiative. Heart of America paid my way to hear Secretary O'Leary's celebrated whistleblower speech. If all or any part of this request is denied, please cite the specific exemption(s) which you think justifies your refusal to release the information and inform me of your agency's administrative appeal procedures available to me under the law. I would appreciate your handling this request as quickly as possible, and I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days, as the law stipulates. Sincerely, William Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias Albuquerque, NM 87111

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Welcome to the fishroute list.
by fishlist＠fishroute.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
by zinc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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I'm from the government, and I'm here to control your email....
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

- start of quoted section ----------- http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9808064usps Clinton backs universal E-mail plan By Tom Diederich The Clinton administration wants all Americans to have an E-mail address to go along with their street address and is asking the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the project's backbone. The idea is to connect physical and electronic addresses using the nation's Internet "country code" -- the top-level ".us" domain. Then a company or government agency, for example, could send bills or bulletins to your electronic mailbox as well as your home. The administration said the move would "accelerate and universalize the growth of electronic commerce," according to the Postal Service. [...] The Postal Service sent a proposal to launch the .us domain initiative to the Commerce Department on June 1. The department on Monday said it would accept comments from the public, based on 11 questions (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usrfc/dotusrfc.htm, until Sept. 3. ) Responses will be posted on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Web site (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/) - end of quoted section - There is an utter cluelessness here which assumes that there is and/or should be a strong corrospondence between an individual, a physical location, and an email address. This is not suprising, considering that this is from the Post Office, which is mired a 19th century concept of what constitutes 'mail'. I suspect that the PO will want to be able to charge for all mail sent to these addresses. The miserable failure of the USPS to generate any interest in their offer to 'frank' email (for a price) may play into this. Once everyone has an government registered email address, it will be a simple matter to forbid the use of uncontrolled email addresses (for either sending or receiving) at least within the US. It's to be expected that government agencies will refuse to send to any other address. In my opinion, the proper response of the USPS to competition from email and parcel delivery services would be to wind down USPS operations. There is no longer a critical need for a protected monopoly in postal delivery. Peter Trei Disclaimer: The above represents my personal opinions only.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From high-tech privacy to low-tech politics, Clinton's video testimony raises novel issues. There is the basic matter of preventing electronic eavesdropping, a presumed concern of all the parties and one that will require the use of sophisticated encryption technology. There is the political consideration that, under certain circumstances, tape of Clinton's testimony could end up in Republican attack ads or television news shows. http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/NATION/t000073443.1.html "An armed society is a polite society." - Robert Heinlein

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